Cara Delevingne dresses up as Jabba The Hutt as The Force Awakens celebs’ inner geek to celebrate Star Wars blockbuster opening

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Even Yoda would have been proud at this spectacle.

Cara Delevingne, Mindy Kaling, Zoe Saldana and a flock of other celebrities took to social media to share snaps of themselves dressed as Star Wars characters to celebrate the highly anticipated opening of The Force Awakens, the seventh film in the iconic franchise, on Thursday.

And Cara probably won the award for the day’s geekiest costume.

The beautiful British model was completely unrecognisable as the green, slug like alien Jabba the Hutt as she stood inside a theatre lobby, wielding two lightsabers.

The 23-year-old captioned it: ‘Watching Star Wars in style’ although how she intended to sit on her long tail was a moot point.

Mindy Kaling was another star who really got inside her character, dressed up as Hans Solo’s Wookiee sidekick Chewbacca for her holiday card.

The 36-year-old also included one of the new additions to the Star Wars family – Chewy’s son Lumpy – in her photo.

‘Happy holidays from our family to yours. Love, Chewy and Lumpy,’ she wrote on the Instagram image.

Country stars Tim McGraw, 48, and his wife Faith Hill, also 48, planned a surprise for their daughters, Gracie, 18, Maggie, 17, and 14-year-old Audrey on Thursday morning.

Tim dressed up as a member of evil Supreme Chancellor Palpatine’s elite Red Guard, while Faith assumed full battle pose as one of the rebels.

Tim captioned his Instagram snap: ‘Happy @starwars Day!!! This is how we woke up our kids!! #TheForceAwakens.’

‘The Force is strong in this household,’ according to Zoe Saldana, 37, who posted a cute picture with artist husband, Marco Perego, and their one-year-old twins, Bowie and Cy.

All were seen from the knees down wearing socks featuring a different character from the film.

UFC star and actress Ronda Rousey captioned her snap: ‘About last night… Star Wars was awesome… I’m a little short for a Stormtrooper.’

The 28-year-old was joined by friends in impressive Darth Maul and Boba Fett costumes to take in the hotly anticipated film.

Meanwhile Facebook entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan swaddled their newborn daughter Max in a Jedi cloak as she lay between a fluffy Wookiee, Darth Vader’s black mask, new Droid BB-8 and a baby-sized lightsaber.

He captioned it, predictably: ‘The Force is strong with this one.’

Chrono Cross Retrospective [PS1]

Chrono Cross was released in 1999 and developed by square. As the follow up to one of the greatest RPGs of all time, Chrono Trigger, this sequel had a lot to live up to. So does this game live up to the lofty legacy left by Chrono Trigger? Well that’s a difficult question because of how different and unique Chrono Cross is when compared to Trigger, or any other RPG for that matter. So let’s take a look with this review at all the interesting aspects of the game and see if it hits that same masterpiece level that its predecessor did…

Ant-Man And The Wasp (2018) – Peyton Reed | Review | AllMovie

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In Ant-Man and the Wasp, Director Peyton Reed (Yes Man) and principal writers Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle) prove that size really doesn’t matter, whether that be of the characters or their place in the Marvel expanded universe.

Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) is trying to make it through the last stages of his house arrest after the events of Captain America: Civil War, but is being constantly harassed by his FBI keeper, Jimmy Woo (Randall Park). But a vision of Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), wife of Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), who has been missing for thirty years in the quantum realm, leads him to contact Pym and his daughter Hope (Evangeline Lilly). This draws him reluctantly out of his home to help rescue her. In doing so, he gets entangled in a multi-layered plot to steal Pym’s technology, with each player having their own end goals. When caught between the self-serving Sonny Burch (Walton Goggins), the self-absorbed Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), and the pursuit by the FBI, which wants to use him to find Pym, Lang’s life suddenly becomes filled with choices that are harder than any he has faced before.

It isn’t often that there is a film where everything seems to coalesce. For it to happen in what is admittedly one of the lower-rank character films in the Marvel universe is even more surprising. But that is exactly what happens here. The directing, writing, acting, and cinematography blend together into a film that can be classified as exceptionally entertaining.

The story, as well as the flow of it, is superb. Every scene that might have otherwise dragged is spiced with humor that keeps the audience both laughing and engaged. Despite the complexity of the multi-layered plotline, the viewer is unlikely to get lost.

With the talented cast this film has, Reed’s work as director appears to come easy. He manages to draw the most out of each performer, and the actors’ performances are neither too subtle nor too overdramatic. The well-crafted script goes a long way in assisting with this.

As mentioned, every actor gives his or her all to the character they play (although Douglas and Pfeiffer’s parts are an underuse of their talent), to the point that you can often almost read their thoughts. They don’t need to tell you their motivations, they adeptly show them to you, ranging from Rudd’s portrayal of Ant Man down to Abby Ryder Fortson’s portrayal of Scott’s daughter Cassie. Even some of the smaller parts stand out, particularly Michael Peña as Luis. The moment when his character is compelled to tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, is an inspired performance not only by Peña but also by other cast members, too.

Again, we are faced with a film that could have easily presented the audience with dizzying movement and hard to grasp action scenes, but the effects and cinematography follow in what seems to be a new trend in the Marvel movies – they don’t shove too much at the viewers so that they can’t track the characters on the screen without the use of slow motion. Of particular note are the camera angles, which do a wonderful job of taking advantage of the characters’ size changes and the finely crafted props used to enhance these scenes.

If there was one complaint, it would be the development of depth in some of the characters. We don’t see enough of Ava’s backstory (or more specifically, her father’s) to know if she really has a bone to pick with Hank Pym or has been misled. The same goes for Laurence Fishburne’s Dr. Bill Foster. Are the flashbacks accurate, and whose story of the past bears the most truth? In reality, though, these are minor details and probably questions for another movie to answer.

Other than this, there isn’t much fault to find in Ant-Man and the Wasp unless the humor bothers you, or you just plain don’t enjoy superhero films. As a representative of the true action hero genre, Ant-Man and the Wasp stands tall.